Murtaza Bhutto

TRIBUNAL MAY SUMMON BENAZIR
KARACHI, Jan 12, 1997: Former Prime Minister Ms. Benazir Bhutto may be
summoned before the three-member tribunal investigating the murder of her
brother, Mir Murtaza Bhutto, and seven of his men on September 20, 1996.
The chairman of the tribunal, Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid, said he had received
a fax message indicating her interest to appear before the tribunal of inquiry
to make a statement on the alleged conspiracy of which her brother was a
victim. The tribunal directed the assistant advocate-general, Latif Abdul
Ansari, to contact her and find out if she was still interested in making her
appearance before the tribunal that has two other judges of the High Court of
Sindh, Justice Amanullah Abbasi and Justice (Dr) Ghous Mohammad. The
tribunal also asked Manzoor Bhutta, counsel for Dr Mazhar Memon, one of
the injured in the incident, to give the names of those whom he wanted to
examine on behalf of the PPP (SB), for which he has already submitted a list.
When the counsel inquired if Ghinwa Bhutto also wants to appear, as the list
suggests, he said definitely, but he could not say when. The counsel, who
himself is a candidate in the Feb. 3 elections, said all his partymen are busy in
the poll campaign, and he would provide the names of those who from the
party's point of view should be examined first on Monday. The tribunal
examined two assistant sub-inspectors and five head constables who were
working or are still working as wireless operators in the Sindh Police
Telecommunication Department.
The witnesses were ASI Zulfiqar Hussain, 42, working in the DC office,
district South, as wireless operator and ASI Zubair Ahmed, 39, working as
wireless operator in sub-control, south, in the office of the SSP (South). The
head constables working in the same positions who were also examined were
Nazir Ahmed, Mohammad Nawaz, Khan Zaman, Mohammad Younus and
Asif Mahmood. These wireless operators were recording messages which
were ordered to be recorded and were conveyed to others as directed, on the
night of the incident.
Khwaja Sharful Islam, counsel for suspended SSP Wajid Ali Durrani,
submitted an application with a request for examination of six police officials,
including SSP Traffic Moula Bux Khushk; head constables Mushtaq Ahmed
and Nazir Ahmed; and constables Muneer Ahmed, Mohammad Akram and
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